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Hm...it lacks a certain Zathiskan sound, honestly. I was hoping for something a little more exotic-sounding. Any other suggestions? ;) (When we come back to Shelzar, Milo's likely to get involved with the Zathiskan patriots working against Calastia, so I was going to really play up his...

This is kind of a goofy question, but I'll ask it anyway. In our ongoing Scarred Lands game, I'm playing a halfling wizard named Milo Greenbrook, who moved to Shelzar but still has family back in Zathiske. I've decided that Milo's folks live in a village somewhere between Quelsk and the...

Oh, I remember what it was like to have the wrong character in the wrong party in the wrong campaign and feel useless as a result. You have my sympathy. Our current game (3.0) has a monk character in it, and our monk's player has had the same complaint about not really knowing what he can do...

If it were me, I'd say there would be no swapping out of the Shadowdancer improved evasion for something else from the rogue list. Those are the abilities for high-level rogues: if you want one of them, go be a high-level rogue and stop taking levels as a Shadowdancer already. But for the...

But wait, according to the DMG, mithral weighs half as much as an equal volume of steel. Adamantine, on the other hand, is the same as steel as far as density goes. So yeah, you pay 500gp/lb. for mithral, but to make something like a sword out of it, you're buying half the number of pounds...

No: same damage as fireball, against one target, ONE TIME. The chains hit on the first round and do damage, after that, all they do is grapple (doing no damage). I should've made that more clear, I guess. ;) -- still a wicked little spell, though

The only time I ever killed a nearly innocent NPC was when for apparently no reason the spineless, toadying loser my tough-guy character was intimidating suddenly decided to grow a pair. The conversation between me and the GM went something like: Me: You know, my character is absolutely...

I feel creeping horror about the spell Divination, just because it always seems to come up right when I'm not feeling up to the challenge of inventing a good answer for it. I'm utterly appalled by Feeblemind. Holy crap, that spell is so completely evil, I'm ashamed that it was my wizard's...

For combat encounters, I have to do a ton of preparation. I grab a legal pad and put down all the major combatants, all their stats, all their cool combat tricks, quick page references for weird stuff they can do, notes about what their spells and items do, and so on. I even go so far as to...

In addition to the usual rules (start on the first level, clear out everything, then go down), there's one important rule our group lives by, and I haven't seen anyone else mention it yet: THINK SHORT-TERM. If you have one-shot or charged items, use them. If you didn't absolutely need it to...

Heh. Our GM is running us through a modified version of the Banewarrens (he moved it into the Scarred Lands setting, changed the factions and backstory to fit, and tied it into a few other continuing plots), and apparently we've run into nearly the same situation. Not to get too spoiler-y, but...

I'd say it depends largely on how judges, philosophers, and various religions in your particular gameworld think about evil. Someone who was sent to kill you is, arguably, performing an evil act. Probably you're not the first person he was sent to kill. A hardline lawful good type might come...

I like Psion's list, because it saved me the trouble of having to think up all those really good answers. Give me a module that does those things, and I'll be pretty much drooling to run it. Add in Easy-to-use NPC descriptions, and I'm completely sold. Don't just give me a solid eight-line...

Guilty as charged. :D Long time no see, but then, for the past few years I've just been lurking on the newsgroups. Good catch, sir! -- damn, i knew this style of signature would make me a marked man

Weirdly enough, the books I've gotten the most use out of for designing games have mostly been noir detective novels. Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep and The Simple Art of Murder, that kind of thing. After those would come Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of...

Hey, I do exactly the same thing. I'm not sure if it actually encourages any of them to look at the next plot more closely, but I enjoy doing it, and that's the important part, right? The first time I ever saw it done was after a really good Trinity game, where the GM wanted to show off all...

What really hurt was when they won a legal injunction preventing the word "gullible" from being listed in the dictionary. It's true! Really! Just like this story! -- honest! ryan

People do that? :\ I mean, I guess it could happen, but I can't imagine it personally, from either side of the question. I can't imagine doing it as a player, and I can't imagine caring enough as a DM to want to keep track of it myself...honestly, I'm kept busy enough just keeping track of...

Yeah, that's rough. It's that kind of thing that led us to just establish a house rule that if your familiar is sharing the same 5' space as you, it only has to make a save if you failed yours; otherwise, just ignore any damage it might have taken. Or, more commonly, we assume that you told...

My favorite rogue character in D&D3 was a self-proclaimed professional adventurer; he could fight, he could sneak, he could talk, he could use magic items, he could do it all. For him, it was all about getting fortune and glory, so he was generally up for most good-oriented quests just because...